doctype removed with transformation

[rorris]

I searched the archives and can't find an answer to this. When I run a simple transformation, I find that the doctype is getting removed from the output. Is there a way to fix this? I'm fairly new to XSLT, so apologies if this is obvious!

Before:
<!DOCTYPE book-part SYSTEM "book.dtd">

After:
gone

[george]

The DOCTYPE declarations (as it is the case also with entities) is not part of the data model and the XSLT code does not see that.

You can add a DOCTYPE declaration in the output using the xsl:output element and specifying the SYSTEM or also the PUBLIC identifiers with the doctype-system and doctype-public attributes.

Best Regards,
George

[rorris]

Thank you very much for the explanation for this and my other similar post.